Hope for POWs, 1944

JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post

Even when this leaflet was issued in March 1944, so very deep in the war and so very close to the end of the war, there was an enlisted hope for humane treatment for Allied POWs--at least that is what the job of the Red Cross was at the time, to sustain that belief and enforce it wherever they could. (I've reproduced the entire pamphlet, below.)

The leaflet provided this hopeful template for addressing an envelope to your POW: